How to create text and graphics with the

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1 Adobe Premiere Pro CC Guide How to create text and graphics with the Essential Graphics Panel The Type tool in Premiere Pro is based on familiar ways of working with text and graphics found in other Adobe Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. The Type tool is a simple and intuitive way of adding text directly in the Program monitor. It s easy to change size and position of your title, change color and font type, or use different alignment options. Titles and graphics created in the Program monitor are automatically added to your sequence. All options and controls for the Type tool can be found in the Essential Graphics panel, as part of the Graphics Workspace (Figure 1). In this guide, you ll use the Essential Graphics Panel to create a new title from a template. You will also create text and shape layers from scratch. Use your own files or download the assets used in this tutorial here. Graphics Workspace Essential Graphics panel Figure 1 Premiere Pro Graphics Workspace 1

2 Using Essential Graphics templates The Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro offers a wide selection of motion graphics, templates for captions, titles, credits, graphics overlays, and more. Browse the templates and drag onto the timeline to add to a sequence. Save your custom titles and motion graphics and share them as templates via Creative Cloud Libraries, or as a local file. To use a graphics template: 1. Start Premiere Pro, start a new project, and import video clips. 2. Click Graphics in the workspace bar at the top of the screen. The workspace layout and panels are rearranged. The Essential Graphics panel opens on the right side of the application interface (Figure 2). Choose Folder menu 3. Click into any of the folders in the Browse tab and review the template types. The available options include: Captions and Subtitles Display text as a a transcription or a translation of a the on-screen dialog. Credits Display a list of the cast and crew involved in a production. Graphics Overlays Add discreet graphics such as Live, Coming Up, a logo, or other items to a video. Lower Thirds Text and graphics overlying the lower title-safe part of a video screen. Slates Record important information about the scene and production such as name, scene number, camera, date, video tape or film roll number and other information. Social Media Choose from common options including Like, Share, and Subscribe. Titles Select from a range of angled, modern, classic, or bold title styles. Figure 2 Essential Graphics panel 4. Use the Choose Folder menu to navigate back up to the folder root. 5. Click the Titles folder. The Titles folder opens (Figure 3). Figure 3 Essential Graphics panel, Titles folder 2

3 6. Select a template that you want to use and drag it to the start of a video track in your sequence (Figure 4). Note: When you add a template to a sequence, Premiere Pro shows media as offline until the template completes loading. If the templates that you added requires fonts that have not been installed, you can resolve the fonts that are missing by clicking the sync option withing the Resolve Fonts dialog box. Figure 4 Drag a template onto the Timeline panel 7. To edit the text and controls, select the template in your sequence. 8. If not already open, select the Edit tab in the Essential Graphics panel. The contents of the graphics object is displayed. Notice there may be many layers in the graphic. A graphic object is a compositing stack of one or more layers that can be edited as a single object. Further, you can use the Essential Graphics panel to manipulate the settings for each individual layer 9. Click on any object to activate the item s controls. Options appear for the selected graphic element. In the case of text objects (Figure 5), a text icon is visible in the compositing stack. For these, you can edit and modify the following properties: Align and Transform Use sliders to adjust horizontal and vertical position, anchor point, scaling, rotation, and opacity. Master Styles Apply pre-defined styles to text, if available. Text Adjust fonts and weights, sizes, alignments, justifications, and other options. Appearance Apply and define fillls, strokes, shadows. Selected text object Align and Transform Master Styles Text Appearance Figure 5 Essential Graphics panel, Edit tab 3

4 10. With the text object still selected in the Essential Graphics > Edit tab, click on the Type Tool in the Tools panel. In the Program Monitor, the boundary box of the text item turns red, indicating that it is selected (Figure 6). Selection Tool Type Tool CTI Play/Stop button Figure 6 Selected text in the Program Monitor 11. Select the text and replace the placeholder text with your own title, then use the Edit tab options to modify its appearance of the text. Use the Selection Tool to select and adjust any of the graphic objects, if available. 12. Drag the Program Monitor current-time indicator (CTI) to the beginning of the sequence and click the Play/Stop button to preview your edited motion graphics template title. 13. To save your newly created as a custom template, use the Selection Tool to drag-and-drop the graphic from the Timeline panel to the Project panel. Creating basic text and shape layers You can easily create titles directly from scratch for your video using the Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro. You can add text, shapes, and so on, to layers that you can rearrange and adjust (Figure 7). Figure 7 Sample title made from text and shape layers 4

5 To create text and shape layers: 1. With your sequence already open in the Timeline panel, click Graphics in the workspace bar at the top of the screen. 2. To create text layers, select the Type Tool and click in the Program Monitor. A single click creates text at a point, while a click-and-drag creates text in a box. A graphic clip is created at the playhead location in the active timeline (Figure 8). Selection Tool Selected text object Type Tool Graphic clip Figure 8 A detail of the Graphics Workspace 3. Type to add text to the graphic object. 4. Use the Selection Tool to directly manipulate the text layer: drag to reposition, change the anchor, change the scale, change the size of the text box, and rotate. You can also click the Edit tab in the Essential Graphics panel and modify the following properties as needed: Align and Transform Use sliders to adjust horizontal and vertical position, anchor point, scaling, rotation, and opacity. Master Styles Apply pre-defined styles to text. Text Adjust fonts and weights, sizes, alignments, justifications, and other options. Appearance Apply and define fillls, strokes, shadows. 5

6 5. Click the disclosure triangle next to shape layer tools in the Tools panel to reveal the options (Figure 9). 6. To create a shape layer, click and drag in the Program Monitor using the Rectangle Tool, Pen Tool, or Ellipse Tool. A graphic shape is added at the playhead location in the timeline. 7. Use the Selection Tool to manipulate the shape layer drag to reposition, change the anchor, change the scale, Figure 9 Tools panel change the size of the text box, and rotate. You can also click the Edit tab in the Essential Graphics panel and modify the shape s properties as desired. 8. Use the Selection Tool in the Timeline to stack and reorder text and shape layers as needed (Figure 10). Text layer Shape layer Figure 10 A detail of the Graphics Workspace 9. Click the Play/Stop button to preview your text and shape layers graphic. For more information Get instant access to free courses, workshops, & teaching materials and connect with the creative education community on the Adobe Education Exchange: Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA USA Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. 6